Designing Environment Concrete Lawn Design

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SPATIAL COMPOSITION

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ASSEMBLAGE

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SUPERIMPOSITION

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FINAL PROJECT

FINAL PROJECT

SITE ANALYSIS: MOVEMENT

EXPERIENCE COLLAGE

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MOVEMENT AROUND MAJOR LOCATIONS

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CIRCULATION

Lunch time, the lawn is a popular location for students to rest and gather with friends.

Vehicle entrance to the concrete lawn

In this particular period majority of the people are moving away from the concrete lawn.

During this period entrance into major locations are reduced, as well as the population of people on site.

Tram stop located approximately 200m away from concrete lawn.

Majority of people traveling in such direction are going to this tram stop.

SPATIAL COMPOSITION

SITE ANALYSIS

SKETCH MODEL 1

Sketch Models Prior to making the spatial composition model, three sketch models were made to assist in its design. These 3 models differed from one another and focused on different visual properties.

The three models merely focused on the properties of asymmetry, shadowing, the use of geometrical shapes and the use of the frame and grid system.

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The third model was further explored for it comprises all of these elements of the frame, asymmetry, and shadowing. The use of the grid system was also believed to be capable of creating a diverse range of design which could also form correlations with geometric shapes.

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SKETCH MODEL 2

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SKETCH MODEL 3

MODEL PICTURE

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SPATIAL COMPOSITION

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This design focuses on using the frame and grid system, it aims to depict the relationship between triangles and the grid system. Shadowing was another concept adopted; it is a major factor in this design for it adds dimension and contrast to the existing white frame. Surfaces were added to create shapes and to soften the over all grid structure of the design.

PLAN

LANDFORM

Pieter Bruegel The Elder, Tower of Babel, 1563, Rotterdam, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna: This precedence was utilised for inspiration in regards to the concept of excursion; the rise in a landform.

In this painting, the tower was drawn to fade into the background and the heavens, giving a sense that it is meeting with the sky, which demonstrates the idea of being closer to God. Prominent Hill Mine, 2008 man-made landform was explored for it also explored the concept of change in the landscape with steps used for adding and subtracting.

LANDFORM Plan Section WEEK4

Tower of Babel, focused on what was imagined and believed to be true and Hill mine was one of man made. Thus, these two notions will be explored in the landform design.

PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER TOWER OF BABEL 1563

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PROMINENT HILL MINE South Australia

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LANDFORM

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This design follows the concept of the imaginative landscape. It is formed with steps to assist in illustrating the idea of both incursion and excursion that appears in the literal land. The triangular platform displayed is inserted to indicate the different worlds of the imaginative landscape. This design aims to give a sense that it is continuous and never ending, akin to the tower of Babel reaching into the sky (being closer to God).

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PLAN

Precedence The Parc de la Villette design by Benard Tschumi illustrated the idea of disjunction through allocating various structures in its surrounding, it is vibrant in colour , therefore, creating a contrast to its natural surrounding with its small and large frame grid system. The structures are superimposed on a system of lines that highlights movement through the park.

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The Glass Cone in Melbourne Central located on Swanston Street designed by Kisho Kurokawa, preserves the Coop’s shot tower that was once the tallest building in Melbourne. The concept of disjunction was depicted through demonstrating co-existence between the past and the present. Also, its pure geometric cone in the shopping center is not approachable and can only be perceived. This cone shape also contrasts with its surrounding through its unique form.

ASSEMBLAGE WEEK 5

The Painting “Pioneer” by Frederick McCubbin was another sugnificant influence, for the artist displayed a timeline which highlighted upon the co-existence of the people and the natural landscape.

The painting illustrates the impact that individuals can bring to its surrounding and how the surrounding can alter one’s feeling and perception about it.

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ASSEMBLAGE

Disjunction Definition: Two diverse systems or concepts working together as one system

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ASSEMBLAGE

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This design focused around combining previous designs into one.

Continuing utilising the grid and frame system and incursion and excursion. This concept follows the idea of disjunction where two systems collaborate into one. Thus, this model aims to present two diverse systems working on one plane visually.

“The Little Prince” was a short narrative written by the famous Antoine de Saint-Exupery. This tale is believed to articulate the idea of MEET in a very clear and distinctive manner. For most individuals in the story were isolated in their mind and world, and happiness was brought by surprises and the meeting between others.

NARRATIVE

MEET: the joining occurrence between individuals

Short story “The Little Prince”

By Antoine de Saint-Exupery

THE JUBILANT MAN The

FIS H E R MA N was a

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never gained

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He lived in black and white, and he too was colourless

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He caught something N U S AL What could be he wondered…

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A child,

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So he made the child his own He was happy he changed THEY

observed And He was jubilant They came in unity to the fisherman’s world And

The Meeting between the fisherman and the child, aimed to resemble the idea of disjunction, for the meeting was one of unexpected and not ordinary. The moral of the narrative is that although there may be variance between individuals, they are still capable of coexisting in the same landscape at the same time.

The narrative is formatted in a compelling manner; this aims to grab readers’ interest and also to make the narrative appeal more amusing to read.

It is written in this way so emphasis upon the actions that are occurring in the story, allowing readers to have a clearer understanding of what is being expressed.

The change occurring to the man is manifested in the collage with various colours visually depicting this change.

THEY

too became interesting

Geometric coloured shapes where use to illustrate a gradual change occurring to the man.

These shapes were also employed in the fisherman’s surrounding, to indicate how his changes can influence other’s around him.

Nils-Ole Lund’s book “Collage Architecture” displayed a variety of Architectural collage that comprises the use of models, photography, sketches, and diagrams. “The Fashion Architecture” collage was an impressive work by Lunds, which assisted in the making of the superimposition collage, for it presented his models and ideas on the same plane with 2D and 3D diagrams, demonstrating the collision between two worlds.

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SUPERIMPOSITION WEEK 6 Image of Model

THE FASHION ARCHITECTURE Nils-Ole Lund’s

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SUPERIMPOSITION

Precedence

LAYER 1: NARRATIVE

LAYER 2: GRID FORMED USING SUPERIMPOSITION LAYER 3: MONOCHROME FILTER

SUPERIMPOSITION COLLAGE The superimposition collage followed the ideas found in the assemblage model, these include forming grids and creating rise and falls.

The plan and section of the assemblage model was used to create the frames of the collage.

The transparency effect used on parts of the narrative collage was symbolic of imaginative world and the fictitious world that was fabricated.

The movement diagram was embedded in the background to indicate the fluidity of foot traffic within the assemblage frames. It was filtered gray-scaled to refer back to the narrative; to the world of the fisherman. Geometric shapes were also applied through cutting parts of the narrative collage to emphasis the change and the movement on the site.

PLAN OF SUPERIMPOSITION

LAYER 4: SITE ANALYSIS

Sou Fujimoto another architect who is truly inspirational, designs a wooden house using large scale of wood to create an unique internal space. In a similar manner i took this idea and used it in my design as well.

Another vital precedent was the cafe 2 birds with one stone. This cafe is located in between and on the bottom of two hills. Such incline in the surrounding invited people to the cafe, thus, uniting people to this one place.

TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE South Yara

WOODEN HOUSE Sou Fujimoto

THE GREAT BAMBOO WALLS Kengo Kuma

FINAL DESIGN: MEET

Kengo Kuma Architecture was one of big inspirations for my design, for Kuma's concepts were akin to the elements that I had focused in my design. In one his design The Great Bamboo Wall he explored the idea of transparency whilst creating division within the space with the use of bamboo.

The wood material chosen was of a light colour. This decision was made through considering the overall natural theme of the university and the artificial look of the surrounding buildings.

By bringing such material on site aims to soften the overall landscape of this area.

The experience of a meeting between individuals is explored and expressed in this collage. The beginning of an encounter is displayed, in which individuals are strangers to one another and are focused in their activities; this strongly correlates to the life of the fisherman pier to the meeting of the child. The people displayed in black and white is ready to be influenced by others in the site.

EXPERIENCE COLLAGE

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The four inclined side of the concrete lawn in the design, assist in inviting students to gather in the center of the lawn, thus, forming the idea of MEET.

Union H ouse

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MSD Building

By embedding the bamboo wall directly in front of the Raymond Priestly walkway will prevent people from crossing the Union Road where vehicle traffic can be seen.

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Strings allow rigidity in the structure and at the same time its a durable material that can twine objects together. In this model, the strings are symbolic of the changes that have occurred to the fisherman. Thus, the model was adjustable. Another reason for the use of string was because it indicated the meeting between the Balsa members and the meeting of the two materials.

String Balsa Wood

Tilted surface

Materials used: String and Balsa Wood

MODEL MAKING